
Not Standing in Your Own Way with Bestselling Author of "Hooked" and "Indistractable", Nir Eyal
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The Power of Controlling Your Attention
i really struggle with this yo you read in the book indistractable. I cando e to lay my story bare and tell you all the horrible mistakes i made along the way, but it wasn't that. Most people are blamers or shamers, right? We blame things outside of ourselves, or we shame ourselves. And then sham in yourself only makes things worse. When we feel crappy, when we make ourselves feel shame, guess what we do to escape the discomfort of shame? We look for more distraction. That's what i did when i was a beast. The same thing with distraction. It's not about the technology. It's about our desire to escape discomfort....
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